Full Professor (the highest scientific degree in Russia), former Head of the Immunology Laboratory of the Central Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, Moscow (now Russian Scientific Hematological Centre). Founder of Advanced Biotherapy, Inc. (ADVB), former President and Vice President, Chief Scientist and Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Directors.

Simon Skurkovich has authored more than 300 publications, including 2 books, in Russia, England, Germany, USA and France. He received more than 43 patents in USA and other countries, and has 7 patents pending. Professor Skurkovich was invited to come from Russia to the United States at the end of 1979 to work at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD. While working at NIH he was advised by Dr. Jonas Salk (creator of polio vaccine), who admired his ideas, and Dr. Aaron Kellner (director of the New York Blood Center) to organize a company because they saw potential future for his scientific ideas.

Most of Dr. Skurkovich’s scientific studies have been in three different fields: oncology (acute leukemia in children), anti-cytokine therapy of autoimmune diseases, and hyperimmune human plasma and immunoglobulins (anti-staphylococcal, anti-pseudomonas, and anti-E. coli).